In the System Preferences there's a nag badge that urges me to "start using iCloud," and I can't seem to disable it no matter what I try. Am I just stuck with this or is there some trick I can use to make it go away?
macOS and iOS are rapidly becoming adware for Apple’s services. Any tricks to disabling these ads will likely be “corrected” by Apple in future release updates.
Serious question: why buy an Apple device if you're not going to use their ecosystem? It seems like that would defeat the purpose, might as well get a cheaper android at that point.
Apple products are generally just better, eco system or not. Apple almost literally defines the industry particularly in ergonomics.
Right now Apple can be thought of as a good king. They have more often than not chosen consumer centric strategies to consumer exploitative stratagies.
However absolute power corrupts absolutely, and apple is starting to make business first rather than consumer first decisions. App store moving to a more subscription based model was apple dipping it's toe into customer exploitation. As apple skirts the line of ads, it turns icloud backups and your entire photo library into a treasure trove of information to be exploited and profited from.
If apple ever thinks that they are in a position where people would not move to competitors, or there are no competitive competitors it means apple can choose to exploit their lead at the cost of consumers, like every other big tech company has done over time.
Using iCloud is one step further to Apple lock in and one more vote to giving apple power over your digital life.
Steve Jobs was a vision guy, but Tim Apple is a capitalist, next quarters profit kind of guy. Next quarters profit people see a brand, not as something to be protected, but as something to be exploited.
I buy Apple laptops because the hardware is the best out there. My first MBP lasted 7 years... And it's still running fine (battery capacity is at 70%). I can run whatever software I need via VMs.
I don't need iCloud, nor GarageBand nor Apple Music, nor...
